A new investigation into kidnapper Ariel Castro’s death suggests prison guards may have falsified information regarding his supervision before his death, and that the actual cause may have been something known as auto-erotic asphyxiation, not suicide.

The investigation arose from allegations of prison guard misconduct surrounding the death of Castro, who pleaded guilty to keeping three women hostage in his Cleveland home for years, the Columbus Dispatch reports. Prison guards allegedly didn’t complete their supervision rounds and faked logs and records surrounding the infamous kidnapper’s death.

Investigators from the Ohio Department of Rehabilitation and Correction noted that Castro was found hanging from prison a window hinge with his pants and underwear at his ankles on Sept. 3. They are now considering the possibility that Castro died from auto-erotic asphyxiation, a masturbation technique involving self-strangulation. Commonly known as AEA, the practice involves cutting off oxygen to the brain in order to intensify orgasms during masturbation or sex.

AEA deaths are often confused with suicide, and initial reports suggested that Castro’s death was also a suicide. But officials noted that Castro displayed no suicidal tendencies and did not write a suicide note.

Castro pleaded guilty to nearly 1,000 counts of kidnapping, rape, aggravated murder (forcing his victims to miscarry) and other crimes. He was sentenced to life without parole, plus 1,000 years, but had only served four weeks of his sentence at the time of his death.

LOL, i like the spin they are putting on this one. Let's face it, someone took him out....as he should have been. Now they want to cover up the fact that someone was capable of committing a murder under the wathc of the guards... big deal, some people needed to turn their backs on this one.

Yes, Yes, lets really do this right!, It's not enough to just accept that he is a sick freak and lock him up till he dies. Oh no, we have to conjure up some really sick twisted story to further our displeasure of him... Hey I have an idea!.. lets dig up his rotting corpse, drag it thru the streets so we can all spit on it, then draw and quarter it, and after his trunk is reduced to something resembling an unrecognizable blob.. then we can really show our distaste because Justice wont truly be served until we maul him to the point of our exhaustion...and then, maybe put him in the freezer so when we catch our breath, we can do it all over again!..

because in a civilized world, its not enough to just cull the sick and twisted from the rest of the herd we have to take our frustration at the world we live in, out on them.

Autoerotic asphyxiation, eh. Well, it does seems like a useful cause of death ... say ... like ... if someone wanted to perhaps ... cover up something. Hey, sounds as if maybe he was really murdered. Oh well, hate it for him.

I saw him a couple of weeks in prison at a visit with his parents... and he didn't appear to be a person that would take his life.... Prison guards should be fired if found guilty of being on-lookers and falsifying state records... could there be more inmates abused by such sick-o's

@mrbomb13 The guy who played Bill in the Kill Bill movies died from AEA. It's not unheard of. People take stupid risks all the time and sometimes they end up dead for it. The problem today is that all the techniques of the past are considered cruel or unusual, and more people than we're comfortable admitting are turning out to be innocent. Racial profiling is still alive and kicking...look at these rich white execs who swindle people for millions and only spend a year or two in jail, while some poor black guy steals a TV and ends up in prison for 25 years.

@wdfc He's dead now, what difference does it make? Killing prisoners on death row with with oxygen deprivation (nitrogen replacement) would be far cheaper and more humane than the lethal injection we use, but people are so determined to make a death sentence be as cruel and painful as possible with today's laws that they won't allow it. One of the big Pro Death Penalty folks in Texas outright refused to consider using Nitrogen as an execution tool because he didn't want the prisoner to die with a smile on his face (oxygen deprivation will cause hallucinations and euphoria before death.) The guys gonna be dead...pretty sure that doesn't change. HOW WE kill them says more about us than it does about the prisoner.

@ToddGilbert@BenIncaHutz Only an idiot or pervert would think that a kidnapper and rapist jacking off and accidentally killing himself in jail is a good outcome. I hope your parents are proud of you and your accomplishments(like putting your socks on this morning).

@Openminded1 I'm a liberal and I'm glad the dude aced himself. I don't care how he did it or in what state of arousal he was in at the time. Killing himself saved us the time and money for having to keep and feed him till he dies of old age.

@BenIncaHutz@Denesius@ToddGilbert Listen bleeding heart liberal, this is a forum to rant, state your opinion and post it, not about writing a f-ing novel. Most everyone is not sad that Castro is gone. and most do not care how it happened. He is dead, and that is not a great loss. Get over it.

@Denesius@BenIncaHutz@ToddGilbert Denesius, please explain your logic. When determining someones punishment we should factor in the costs to the state? Seriously? What do you figure the punishment should be for speeding tickets or for tax fraud? Should we just pull Bernard Madoff out of his cell and put a pullet in his head to save some money? Please explain your position in detail.

@BenIncaHutz@ToddGilbert at the cost of $45000 per year for incarceration (not counting future medical care, legal appeal expenses, etc), and a life expectancy of 40 years, I figure the guards saved the state almost $2 million. So yes @BenIncaHutz, I also think it's a good outcome, and I'm not wearing socks....